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    God's Methods with Man
    God's Methods with Man
    God's Methods with Man
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    God's Methods with Man

    By G. Campbell Morgan

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    These addresses were delivered in substance at Northfield, and reported stenographically. They were then revised and expanded, and were afterward delivered in my own church. A flood of letters, books, and pamphlets poured in upon me: some from enquirers; some from those who have differed from positions taken up; and very many from those who have been helped.These letters have all been acknowledged, except in cases where that was rendered impossible by anonymity. However, I was and am determined not to be tempted into controversy of any kind, either by letter or in print, seeing that I am far from claiming that hearers or readers are bound to accept my convictions as absolute truth. I simply desire to enunciate what I believe to be the teaching of the New Testament. The final court of appeal is not any man’s interpretation, but God’s Book; and I may have something yet to learn upon certain points.
    If those whom I address search the Scriptures for proof of my statements, and do not come to the same conclusions as myself, we may yet rejoice together in that we shall thereby know the Word of God more perfectly, and moreover that “what we know not now, we shall know hereafter.”

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossReach Publications
    Release dateAug 26, 2018
    ISBN9788869096235
    God's Methods with Man
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    G. Campbell Morgan

    George Campbell Morgan was born in Tetbury, England, on December 9, 1893. At the young age of thirteen, Morgan began preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. Morgan and his wife, Annie, had four boys and three girls. His four sons followed him into the ministry.Morgan visited the United States for the first time in 1896, the first of fifty-four times he crossed the Atlantic to preach and teach. In 1897, Morgan accepted a pastorate in London, where he often traveled as a preacher and was involved in the London Missionary Society. After the death of D. L. Moody in 1899, Morgan assumed the position of director of the Northfield Bible Conference in Massachusetts. After five successful years in this capacity, in 1904 he returned to England and became pastor of Westminster Chapel, London, where he served for the next thirteen years, from 1904 to 1917. Thousands of people attended his services and weekly Friday night Bible classes.He had no formal training for the ministry, but his devotion to studying the Bible made him one of the leading Bible teachers of his day. In 1902, Chicago Theological Seminary conferred on him an honorary doctor of divinity degree. Although he did not have the privilege of studying in a seminary or a Bible college, he has written books that are used in seminaries and Bible colleges all over the world. Morgan died on May 16, 1945, at the age of eighty-one.

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      God's Methods with Man - G. Campbell Morgan

      N.

      I

      Introductory

      Ere God had built the mountains,

      Or raised the fruitful hills;

      Before He filled the fountains

      That feed the running rills—

      In Me, from everlasting,

      The wonderful I AM,

      Found pleasures, never wasting;

      And Wisdom is My name.

      When, like a tent to dwell in,

      He spreads the skies abroad,

      And swathed about the swelling

      Of ocean’s mighty flood—

      He wrought by weight and measure;

      And I was with Him then:

      Myself the Father’s pleasure,

      And Mine, the sons of men.

      Thus Wisdom’s words discover

      Thy glory and Thy grace,

      Thou everlasting Lover

      Of our unworthy race.

      Thy gracious eye surveyed us,

      Ere stars were seen above;

      In wisdom Thou hast made us,

      And died for us in love.

      And couldst Thou be delighted

      With creatures such as we—

      Who, when we saw Thee, slighted

      And nailed Thee to a tree?

      Unfathomable wonder,

      And mystery divine!

      The voice that speaks in thunder

      Says—Sinner, I am thine!

      Cowper

      .

      For a correct estimate of the present times, and a true conception of future events, we must have a clear understanding of the things that are past. We are in danger of living too much in the present, and of looking upon the Divine activities as if they were haphazard or accidental, as our own always are, save as we are under the control of the Spirit of God. We seem to have contracted the idea that in the history of the race God has been making experiments with men; and that when one plan has failed, He has adopted another. Such false conceptions arise from the fact that, mentally and spiritually, we live too much in the circle of our own times, and are forgetful of all that has gone before. The corrective is found in studying history from the Divine standpoint. Nothing yields a more chaotic, uncertain, and unsatisfactory result than a view merely from the human side; while, on the contrary, order, beauty, and progress, are seen only as we take the Divine outlook.

      The Chart which accompanies these Lectures is intended as an aid to the mind through the avenue of the eye. It is a comparatively simple delineation of the events with which we have to deal, and is intended to represent the whole stream of time. The portion of a circle colored blue represents the past eternity. The beginning of time is marked by a small green circle, signifying a state of earthly perfection, the garden of Eden as it came from the hand of God. Human history runs on in epochs—from the Fall of man to the Flood; from the Flood to the call of Abraham; from the call of Abraham to Moses; and the reign of Law to the coming of Christ. From the point where human sin begins, the red line marks the presence of sacrifice, the blood of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. At the end of the period of Law, the Cross is uplifted; and a line ascending indicates the return of Jesus to the heavens. So far as humanity is concerned, that line is black, announcing the culmination of sin; and, in contrast, we have the gold which tells of heavenly glory accomplished by that Cross of Jesus Christ. A circle, showing the sphere of the Holy Spirit’s dispensation, is colored red, because the whole earth to-day, as viewed from the Divine standpoint, is under the blood of Christ’s Cross. God is dealing with man, entirely and everywhere, under the shelter and shadow of that Cross. A thin, green line from Eden to Calvary marks the fact that throughout human history God has never left the earth without witnesses who have been loyal to Him. That line becomes, in the period of the Spirit’s work, a golden one; for the testimony is now of a heavenly, as distinct from the former earthly, character. A line half gold, half purple, indicates the priestly work of Jesus Christ in the heavens during this period. The device of a tongue of fire represents the Spirit as connecting the exalted Christ and the earth on which we live. This dispensation ends with the coming of Christ, and the ascent of the Church to meet Him, marked by a line, the black of which signifies the mystery of the rapture to the unregenerate, and the blue and gold, the glory the Church now enters upon with Christ. Then sets in a short period of tribulation upon the earth, indicated by a black section; at the end of which Christ and His Church come to the mid-heavens; He Himself descends to the earth; and we have the Millennium, a green circle with the star of gold, showing that while an earthly glory is set up, the Kingdom of Heaven will be realized under the direct rule of Christ and His people. The red line of blood is taken up and continued on our Chart immediately upon the end of this dispensation. At the end of the Millennium there will be a short period of further trouble upon the earth, again marked by a black section. A golden section indicates the fullness of the times, the glorious reign of Christ, and then the great eternities set in, when God shall be all in all.

      It is well to approach this subject reverently, humbly, and apart from controversy. The Bible we shall regard throughout as the authoritative revelation of God concerning His dealings with men. We shall turn neither to the right hand nor to the left to defend the statements of the Word of God.

      At the outset, however, there are certain principles to which assent must be given, in order to a true understanding of the whole scheme of these studies.

      I. First, the one abiding, eternal, unchangeable fact—God is. It is necessary thus to get down to the bed-rock for a sound structure.

      II. Then we must recognize the truth of Divine Sovereignty. The God from Whose thought all good things come, has never handed over anything to other government than His own. It may be that, for awhile, the prince of the power of the air has seemed to rule; but let it never be forgotten that God is upon His throne, high and lifted up, still holding in His hands the reins of government. Not only in His own heavens, not only on this earth, but in the deepest abyss itself, God is absolutely Sovereign.

      III. The next point is that this rule cannot be set aside; it will continue forever, notwithstanding all opposition.

      IV. Lastly, because God is, and because He still holds the reins of government, there must come the final triumph of His Kingdom and of His will.

      II

      From Creation to Christ

      I looked: aside the dust-cloud rolled—

      The Waster seemed the Builder too;

      Upspringing from the ruined Old

      I saw the New.

      T was but the ruin of the bad,—

      The wasting of the wrong and ill;

      Whate’er of good the old time had

      Was living still.

      The outworn rite, the old abuse,

      The pious fraud transparent grown,

      The good held captive in the use

      Of wrong alone—

      These wait their doom, from that great law

      Which makes a past time serve to-day;

      And fresher life the world shall draw

      From their decay.

      But life shall on and upward go;

      Th’ eternal step of Progress beats

      To that great anthem, calm and slow,

      Which God repeats.

      God works in all things: all obey

      His first propulsion from the night:

      Wake thou and watch!—the world is grey

      With morning light!

      J. G. Whittier

      .

      The Reformer.

      In thought we enter the dread silence of eternity past; and as the voices of earth are hushed, we have in that silence one consciousness—God is love. Every movement of creation began there.

      "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."

      The phrase the beginning carries us behind all dates. The first certainty is that God created—when, no man can tell: how far back, is beyond all computation. Behind the beginning of material things—God. Those who would put science and revelation in opposition say to us, You tell us that the world is six thousand years old; but here is a piece of rock which must be thousands of years older. We reply that we do not count our six thousand years from the creation of matter, but from that of man. Your rock may be as old as you please. Our claim is that, beyond your longest stretch of years, is God—creating. Yet another change—The earth was waste and void; darkness was upon the face of the waters.

      It may be well to tabulate the statements of Genesis 1:1, 2:

      1. In the beginning God.

      The only satisfactory statement possible concerning the countless ages of the past. The light of the New Testament enables us to make a further assertion concerning that past eternity, viz, God is love.

      2. God created the heaven and the earth.

      That declares the origin of all of which we know anything beside God Himself. No date is fixed, nor can be.

      3. The earth was waste and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

      Between this and the former, some unchronicled event has transpired; for waste and void are words which cannot describe the first conditions of any creation of God.

      4. The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

      The chaotic earth was not God-forsaken, but watched by the unwearying vigilance of the Eternal Spirit. How long this lasted none can tell.

      We come now to a point with which we are more immediately concerned, "And God said." Here we have for the first time Divine thought expressed in speech. The Word of God, the Logos. In John’s Gospel is an important statement bearing on this fact—John 1:1:

      In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

      By the Logos God brings order out of disorder, and beauty out of the darkness. The Word of God sounded over the chaotic earth; and, in response to that Word, there arose order, beauty, everything that we see to-day, only in its perfection. Read in this connection, Prov. 8, where the Word of God is spoken of as Wisdom. Observe the declarations of that wonderful passage, that in all God’s creative acts, I (Wisdom) was daily His delight. Thus we have creation by God, through Christ, the Wisdom or the Word of God; the earth thoroughly furnished, and man placed thereon. So time begins.

      Accepting absolutely the Bible story, which fits in with reason, experience, and hope, we find man created in the image of God and placed amid perfect environment. He lives in the Divine favor, holding unbroken communion with God, and dwelling in the realm of loyalty to Him. Some say that man was a non-moral being until he fell; but we contend that the moment he stood in the garden of Eden, with its testing point for character in the forbidden tree, and the Divine denial of its fruit upon his soul, he knew that the realms of right and of wrong were bounded by obedience and disobedience. He was a moral being the moment he took up his position there. God did not tempt, but tested, man—an absolute necessity in the nature of the case, for man is a being with a will. Man’s will is paralyzed, robbed of its glory and magnificence, save as he has opportunity to use it.

      Tennyson says

      "Our wills are ours, we know not how;

      Our wills are ours to make them Thine."

      But man chose to make his will his own, in contradiction to the Divine will; becoming, by that action, immoral. He fell, was driven forth; and, from that moment, the reign of conscience set in. Man took his place outside the garden of Eden, to face the future with its conflict and need. His position was that of a sinner; and the Divine dealing was no longer with one innocent, but with a law-breaker. Straightway the blood line was over the earth, pointing to the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, and to be slain in the fullness of time. God brought to the man and woman in the garden coats of skins; and there could have been no such clothing save as there had first been the sacrifice of life and the shedding of

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